, it might be
             appropriate to use an example in that context. Although the debate at
             Stanford University ran much deeper than I can hope to touch in this
             paper, the root of the problem was as follows: In 1980, Stanford
             University came up with a program - later known as the "Stanford-style
             multicultural curriculum" which aimed to familiarize students with
             traditions, philosophy, literature, and history of the West. The
             program consisted of 15 required books by writers such as Plato,
             Aristotle, Homer, Aquinas, Marx, and Freud. By 1987, a group called
             the Rainbow Coalition argued the fact that the books were all written
             by DWEM's or Dead White European Males. They felt that this type of
             teaching denied students the knowledge of contributions by people of
             color, women, and other oppressed groups. In 1987, the faculty voted
             39 to 4 to change the curriculum and do away with the fifteen book
             requirement and the term "Western" for the study of at least one
             non-European culture and proper attention to be given to the issues of
             race and gender (Gould 199). This debate was very important because
             its publicity provided the grounds for the argument that America is a
             pluralistic society and to study only one people would not accurately
             portray what really makes up this country.
             Proponents of multicultural education argue that it offers
             students a balanced appreciation and critique of other cultures as
             well as our own (Stotsky 64). While it is common sense that one could
             not have a true understanding of a subject by only possessing
             knowledge of one side of it, this brings up the fact that there would
             never be enough time in our current school year to equally cover the
             contributions of each individual nationality. This leaves teachers
             with two options. The first would be to lengthen the school year,
             which is highly unlikely bec...